x6Ak5 TIL a study found that 90% of women said penis width is more important than length for sexual satisfaction
5Vog9 TIL that in 1990, on flight BA 5390, a poorly installed windshield blew off, partially sucking the captain out of the plane. The crew managed to hold onto him until they landed, and amazingly, he survived.
M74N0 TIL That mountain goats are not actually goats
j6XJj TIL that AT&T introduced 'Wirephoto' in 1924 that allowed photos to be sent over telephone lines
0dmpp TIL that chimpanzees also wage wars. The Gombe Chimpanzee War pitted two groups against each other for four years.
grwZ8 Til during The Carrington Event, the most intense geomagnetic storm in recorded history, on 1–2 September 1859, some telegraph operators were able to send and receive messages despite having disconnected their power supplies.
LQxNV TIL 80% of families in Argentina have at least one pet in their home.
b64g7 TIL that remote work can save both the company and the employee thousands of dollars per year. Companies can save up to $10,600 per remote employee, while employees can save up to $12,000 by working remotely.
QNRkM TIL Abraham Lincoln signed into a law that began the IRS and was the USA’s first income tax. It was done to help pay for civil war expenses
DQKYg TIL That dice can be intransitive. Three dice, A, B, and C, can be made in such a way that on average: A will roll higher than B; B will roll higher than C; and C will roll higher than A
m1PNx TIL that Willie, a heroic parrot, saved a choking girl by alerting his owner, Megan Howard, who then performed the Heimlich maneuver and rescued her.
ANKQg TIL about the Guinness share-trading fraud, a major business scandal of the 1980s. It involved the manipulation of the London stock market to inflate the price of Guinness shares to thereby assist Guinness's £4 billion takeover bid for the Scottish drinks company Distillers.